Taito Hoffrén is a singer, versatile musician, and composer, who studied at the Sibelius Academy Folk Music department. He has worked widely in theatre, both as a composer and sound designer. Currently he’s writing doctoral thesis on runo singing at the University of Arts, Helsinki. Furthermore, Hoffrén operates as a sound engineer, and has published more than 30 albums of Finnish ethno and world music on his record label ”Ääniä” (‘voices/sounds’). 2006–2015 he worked as an artistic director of Sommelo Ethno Music Festival